Title XV — LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY

242.490. Levy of maintenance tax — procedure. — 1. To maintain and preserve the ditches, drains, levees or other improvements made pursuant to sections 242.010 to 242.690 and to strengthen, repair and restore the same, when needed, and for the purpose of defraying the current exp…

242.492. Processing fee authorized for certain assessed tracts, amount. — In addition to any maintenance tax imposed under section 242.490, the board of supervisors may set an annual processing fee for assessed tracts when the board determines that the costs of preparation and pr…

242.500. Petition for reassessment of benefits — appointment of commissioners. — 1. Whenever the board of supervisors of any district in existence as of August 28, 2008, or organized under this chapter after August 28, 2008, on behalf of the district, or the owners of twenty-five…

242.502. Supervisors to levy tax on readjusted benefits — levy, how determined. — 1. If the board of supervisors deem it necessary, the board shall, without unnecessary delay, levy a tax of such portion of said readjusted assessed benefits on all lands, railroad and other propert…

242.504. Supervisors may issue bonds, limitation on. — 1. The board of supervisors may, if in their judgment it seems best, issue bonds which, when added to the bonded indebtedness then outstanding, do not exceed ninety percent of the total amount of taxes levied pursuant to sect…

242.506. Supervisors may levy new tax — procedure. — 1. Notwithstanding the limitations of sections 242.280 and 242.290 or any tax levy limitation contained in this chapter, the board of supervisors, having levied a tax pursuant to section 242.502, may levy a new tax and, if nece…

242.510. Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — tax levy. — In all cases where drainage districts have been organized under proceedings in any circuit court of the state, prior to April 8, 1905, the board of supervisors, instead of having commissioners appointed to assess b…

242.520. Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — limitation on indebtedness. — 1. In drainage districts so making level assessments, the board of supervisors thereof may, with the consent of the owners of not less than three-fifths of the lands embraced in such districts, gi…

242.530. Districts formed prior to April 8, 1905, may proceed as heretofore. — Nothing contained in sections 242.510 and 242.520 shall be construed as preventing the board of supervisors and other officers of any drainage district formed prior to April 8, 1905, from proceeding un…

242.540. Collection of drainage tax. — 1. It shall be the duty of the collector of revenue of each county in which lands or other property of any drainage district organized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 are situate to receive the drainage tax book each year, and he is hereby…

242.550. Collector — failure to pay tax, penalty. — If any county collector of the revenues refuses, fails or neglects to make prompt payment of the tax or any part thereof collected under sections 242.010 to 242.690 to the secretary, then he shall pay a penalty of ten percent on…

242.560. Current and delinquent taxes — collection — procedure. — 1. In counties where the provisions of chapter 65 are, or may hereafter be in force, the secretary of the board of supervisors shall extend all drainage taxes under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 on …

242.570. Payment of drainage tax — procedure. — 1. Any person or corporation, copartnership or other parties owning lands and other property assessed for the construction of any ditch or other improvement under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, shall have the privile…

242.580. Drainage tax, when delinquent — penalty. — All taxes provided for in sections 242.010 to 242.690 remaining unpaid after December thirty-first of the year for which said taxes were levied shall become delinquent and bear a penalty of one percent per month on the amount of…

242.590. Drainage tax to constitute a lien — certification of drainage tax record. — 1. All drainage taxes provided for in sections 242.010 to 242.690, together with all penalties for default in payment of the same, all costs in collecting the same, including a reasonable attorne…

242.600. Suits for taxes — evidence — procedure. — 1. The drainage tax book of the district, as returned by the collector of the revenue to the secretary of the board of supervisors of the drainage district, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of all matters therein conta…

242.610. Action instituted against whom — notice filed, effect. — 1. Whenever any drainage or levee district heretofore or hereafter organized or reorganized and existing under any of the drainage or levee laws of the state of Missouri, shall hereafter institute an action, in the…

242.620. Protection of drainage district lien. — 1. To protect said lien of said drainage taxes upon the lands and other property against which said taxes shall be levied, in any case where delinquent lands are offered for sale for such delinquent taxes, and the amount of the tax…

242.630. Unpaid warrants to draw interest. — Any warrant issued under sections 242.010 to 242.690 that is not paid when presented to the treasurer of the board of supervisors of the district, because of lack of funds in the treasury, such fact shall be endorsed on the back of suc…

242.640. Surety bonds payable to district. — All surety bonds required to be given by sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall be made payable to the district by its corporate name, in which name all suits shall be instituted and prosecuted. All penalties herein named shall be payable t…

242.650. Change of venue limitation. — 1. No change of venue shall be allowed in any of the proceedings had under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, except where the judge of the court in which the articles of association have been filed shall be disqualified for any …

242.660. Action not to abate by reason of death of party. — No action under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall abate by reason of the death or disability of any party to any proceeding, but upon suggestion of such death or disability the cause shall be immediately revived in the n…

242.670. Limited appeal from assessments. — No appeal from any action of the circuit court had under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall be permitted to act as supersedeas or to delay any action or the prosecution of any work begun under the provisions of this law. ­­-------- (RSMo…

242.680. Existing rights not affected by sections 242.010 to 242.690. — Where proceedings have been begun under the provisions of the sections repealed by the act of April 8, 1905, they may be proceeded with and completed under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690; provi…

242.690. Prior remedies not impaired by sections 242.010 to 242.690. — 1. The repeal of article 1 of chapter 41, RSMo 1909 and the repeal of an act amending and adding to said article 1, enacted in 1911 and found on pages 205 to 222 of the laws of Missouri of 1911, shall not have…

242.692. Major district and minor district defined. — The drainage district organized or reorganized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, which desires to annex itself to another drainage district also so organized, either for outlet or other purposes, including h…

242.694. Petition for annexation by minor district — service. — The board of supervisors of any minor district may in behalf of said district and the landowners therein, file a petition praying to be annexed to a major drainage district organized under the same provisions of law,…

242.696. Acceptance or rejection of petition — notice — objections, hearing, decree — transfer of records and property. — 1. The board of supervisors of the major district shall, within ninety days after the service of a certified copy of petition upon the secretary of the major …

242.698. Appeal. — Any owner of lands or other property in the minor district shall have the right to appeal the finding or decree of the court annexing minor district to major district, said appeal to be prosecuted in the same manner as provided for appeals under the civil code.…

242.699. Construction — applicability. — The provisions herein contained are declared to be remedial in character, shall be liberally construed by the courts promptly and shall apply to districts already organized, in process of reorganization or to be hereafter organized or reor…

242.700. Drainage district may be formed on land containing mineral deposits. — The owners of a majority of the acreage in any contiguous body of lands or of lands having a common drainage, certified by the state geologist of this state to contain or probably contain valuable min…

242.710. Reclamation of mineralized lands. — In order more effectively to promote the drainage and reclamation of mineralized lands now organized or which may hereafter be organized hereunder, such districts shall have the power to purchase, construct, own or lease and operate a …

242.720. Survey and reclamation plan — how made — exceptions. — 1. The chief engineer appointed by the board of supervisors of any mine drainage district, as provided in section 242.220, shall make a survey of the lands, both surface and underground, within the district, and of a…

242.730. Pumping tax — levy, collection and use — contracts with landowners. — 1. The board of supervisors shall, in the resolution herein provided for, levy and provide for the collection of a pumping tax, in the form of a royalty on the mineral concentrates produced from the la…

242.740. Issuance and registration of bonds. — 1. The board of supervisors of any such mine drainage district may issue the bonds of such district as provided in section 242.480, except that in lieu of the basis of the issuance thereof as provided in section 242.450, the total am…

242.750. Credit for additional pumping operations. — In the event that the drainage operations conducted by any such drainage district shall not drain any tract of land therein to the depth of mining operations conducted on such tract, necessitating the operation by the owner of …